[8] Glámr: As a giant-name also attested in Bárðar saga Snæfelsáss (ÍS I, 61), in the rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: Glámr) and in Allra flagða þula (see Introduction). Glámr is also the name of the ghost who fights Grettir Ásmundarson in Gr (chs 32-5, ÍF 7, 107-23). For the meaning of this name, see glámr m. ‘twilight’, a heiti for ‘moon’ in Þul Tungls l. 4.
References
- Bibliography
- Finnur Jónsson. 1926-8. Ordbog til de af samfund til udg. af gml. nord. litteratur udgivne Rímur samt til de af Dr. O. Jiriczek udgivne Bósarímur. SUGNL 51. Copenhagen: Jørgensen.
- ÍF 7 = Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar. Ed. Guðni Jónsson. 1936.
- ÍS = Bragi Halldórsson et al., eds. 1987. Íslendinga sögur og þættir. 3 vols. Reykjavík: Svart á hvítu.
- Internal references
- 2022, ‘ Anonymous, Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar’ in Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade and Tarrin Wills (eds), Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 5. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 640-806. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=70> (accessed 20 April 2024)
- Not published: do not cite (GrettV)
- Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Tungls heiti’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 911. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3230> (accessed 20 April 2024)